Elevating means.



PATENTED JULY 17, 1906. E. S. HENRY & D. B. CAMP.

ELBVATING MEANS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.14. 1905.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1 No. 826,164; PATENTED JULY 17, 1906.

E. S. HENRY & D. B. CAMP.

ELEVATING MEANS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 14. 1905.

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EUGENE SUN DERLAND HENRY AND DAVID B. CAMP, OF BOISE, IDAHO.

ELEVATING MEANS- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 17, 1906.

particularly useful for raisin grain water and the like. a i

The object is to provide novel means of,

a simple nature for counterbalancing the weight of the material being raised, thereby requiring less power to elevate the same a given distance.

The referred embodiment of the invention is iilustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the elevating means. Fig. 2 is'an end elevation thereof, portions being shown in section. Fig. 3 is a sectional view through one of the buckets, and Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3.

Similar reference-numerals designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In the embodiment illustrated a suitable sup orting-frame 5 is employed, in which an end ess elevator flight of buckets is mounted. This flight comprises a lower shaft 6 and an upper shaft 7 ,said shafts carrying sprocketwheels 8, around which passes an endless chain belt 9. Buckets 10 are mounted on the shaft, each bucket comprising side walls 11, a bottom 12, and a top-13, said top being tapered and having a closed end 14 and an open end 15 The open end forms a'lateral inlet and discharge, and the top constitutes a trough when the bucket is inverted.

A motor (shown conventionally at 16) is employed'for' driving the elevator and has a geared connection with the same. This connection includes a shaft 17, having a gear or belt wheel 18 mounted thereon, which wheel has a belt connection 19 with the drive wheel 20 of the motor. Secured to one side of the wheel 18 are a plurality of buckets 21, forming the said wheel into a combined gear and motor wheel. The shaft 17 also is provided with a sprocket-wheel 22, about which passes achain belt 23, that engages another sprocketwheel 24, mounted on the shaft 7. A receiver is located at one side of the upper end of the elevator flight, and extending therefrom is a spout 26, the discharge end of which is disposed over the buckets 21. A conveyor-trough 27 is located beneath the buckets and wheel 18.

In operation the motor 16 through the in-' terposed gearing above described rotates the shaft 7, and thereby operates the endless flight. lonsequently the material, whether liquid or solid, delivered to said flight will be elevated in the bucket, and as said bucket turns to an inverted position at the up er end of the flight the contents will be ischarged laterally into the receiver 25. From thence they will gravitate through the spout 26 and be delivered into the buckets 21 of the wheel 18, whereupon the material being elevated will be counterbalanced and said-buckets 21 will discharge into the trough 27.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction, operation, and many advantages of the herein-described invention will be a parent to those skilled in the art without rther description, and it will be under stood that various changes in the size, shape, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus described our invention,what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In elevating mechanism of the character described, the combination with an endless elevator flight, of a motor, earing connecting the motor and flight, sai gearing including a wheel having buckets, and means for delivering the material elevated by the flight to said buckets.

2. In elevating mechanism of the character described, the combination with an endless chain flight of buckets, of a motor, a shaft having a plurality of belt-wheels, a belt con- 3. An endless elevator flight comprising a chain and buckets mounted thereon, said as our own we have hereto aflixed our signabuckets eachhaving side walls, a bottom, and tures in the presence of two witnesses.

a tapering top, forming a trough when the EUGENE SUNDERLAND HENRY. bucket is inverted, one side of said bucket l DAVID CAMP.

v charge or the bucket. O H. RATHBUN,

5 being 0 en to provide a lateral inlet and dis- Witnesses:

In testimony that we claim the foregoing j G. W. LANGMAID. 

